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Veeam Certified Architect Package (VMCA)

SS Course: 2001459

Course Overview

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This five-day, technical deep dive is focused on teaching you how to configure, manage, and support a Veeam Availability Suite v10 solution. You’ll also learn how to effectively scope, size, design, optimize, automate, and troubleshoot a deployment. This class also covers security, audit, and compliance considerations.

Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the Veeam Certified Architect v1 (VMCA) exam.

                                                                  

Scheduled Classes

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What You'll Learn

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After completing this course attendees will be able to:

  • Describe Veeam Availability Suite components usage scenarios and relevance to their own environment
  • Effectively manage data availability in on-site, off-site, cloud, and hybrid environments
  • Ensure both Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are met
  • Install and configure Veeam Availability Suite into your environment, ensuring data is protected
  • Adapt with an organization’s evolving technical, business, and regulatory needs.
  • Ensure recovery is possible, effective, efficient, secure, and compliant with business and legal requirements
  • Provide visibility of the business data assets and produce effective reports and dashboards to monitor performance and risks
  • Conduct basic troubleshooting and analysis of a Veeam Availability Suite environment
  • Accurately scope and size a technical environment, evaluating Veeam Availability Suite design decisions against current and future technical and business landscapes
  • Demonstrate the value of a Veeam deployment to both internal and external clients, ensuring designs that maximize your Return on Investment
  • Guarantee and verify the recoverability of data to the business
  • Optimize configurations, ensuring workload impact on network, cpu, and storage resources is within acceptable levels for the business
  • Interrogate log files for detailed root cause analysis

Outline

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Configuration and Management Introduction

  • Describe RTOs and RPOs, what they mean for your business, how to manage and monitor performance against them
  • The 3-2-1 Rule and its importance in formulating a successful backup strategy
  • Identify key Veeam Availability Suite components and describe their usage scenarios

Building Backup Capabilities

  • Backup methods, the appropriate use cases and impact on underlying file systems
  • Create, modify, optimize and delete backup jobs, including NAS Backup jobs. Explore different tools and methods, such as BitLooker and Deduplication, to maximize environment performance
  • Global Settings and their usage to prevent production performance bottlenecks, encrypt network traffic data and control network jurisdiction

Restoring from Backup

  • Identify and describe the different restore tools and their features. Ensure you have the confidence to use the correct restore tool at the right time
  • Using Secure Restore to prevent the restoration of malware
  • Disaster recovery from backup, respond accordingly to a variety of real-world recovery scenarios

Backup Copy Jobs

  • Simple vs Advanced Backup Copy Jobs, how to create and modify them using best practices to ensure efficient recovery
  • Utilizing tape jobs, how to create and modify

Replication

  • Identify and describe the options available for replication, the use cases and impacts of using
  • Create, modify and delete replication jobs, outline considerations to ensure success

Failover

  • Identify and describe in detail, failover features and the appropriate usage
  • Develop, prepare and test failover plans to ensure recovery
  • Disaster recovery from replica, respond accordingly to a variety of real-world recovery scenarios

Advanced Repository Capabilities

  • Ensure efficiency by being able to select appropriate transport modes while being aware of the impact of various backup functions on the infrastructure
  • Ensure scalability by integrating off-site S3 storage
  • Ensure compatibility with existing deduplication appliances

Testing Backup and Replication

  • Testing backups and replicas to ensure you can recover, what you need, when you need to
  • Configure Veeam Data Labs and setup sandbox environments based on backup, replicas and storage snapshots
  • Using Veeam Data Labs Staged Restore to manage and comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation before releasing restores to production

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

  • Manage multiple Veeam Backup & Replication installations from a single web console, maintaining a view of your entire virtual environment, ensuring data protection of ROBO and Enterprise environments.
  • Create user and group roles, delegate workloads whilst maintaining data control
  • Enable encryption password loss protection, helping to restore encrypted data in case of lost or forgotten encryption passwords

Veeam ONE

  • Monitor your Virtual, Physical and Cloud environments with Veeam ONE™ and assess the different views available
  • Configure Veeam ONE for your specific technical and business requirements, describe the alarm options available and how to customize their usage
  • Set up, use and customize Veeam ONE Reporter, creating the reports and dashboards you require technically and for the business

Support

  • Locate, migrate or restore backup configuration
  • Identify and locate appropriate support resources
  • Troubleshooting methodology to identify, isolate and remediate support issues

Design and Optimization

  • Introduction
  • Always-On™
  • Design and Sizing

Design and Sizing

  • DNS and name resolution
  • Veeam BackUp Server
  • Veeam BackUp Server Database
  • Veeam BackUp Server Locations
  • Veeam BackUp Server Proxy Sizing
  • Transport Modes
  • Repository Server
  • Estimating Repository Capacity
  • WAN Accelerator
  • Interaction With Hypervisors

Infrastructure Assessment

  • Stages of POC
  • Important Data to Collect
  • Network and Firewall
  • Veeam ONETM

Security

  • Permissions
  • MS Hyper-V
  • VMware vCenter
  • App-aware Processing
  • MS Active Directory
  • MS SQL Server
  • MS Exchange
  • MS Sharepoint
  • Oracle

Optimizations

  • Protecting Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration
  • Proxy and Repository Servers
  • Scale-out Backup Repository
  • Deduplication Appliances
  • WAN Accelerator
  • Tape Server, Drives and Drivers
  • Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
  • Indexing
  • Anti-Virus on Veeam Servers and Guest VMs

Automation

  • Veeam Backup Server
  • Silent Updates of Backup Server
  • VMware vSphere Tags

Audit and Compliance

  • Auditing
  • Compliance
  • SureBackup and SureReplica

Troubleshooting

  • Advanced troubleshooting and diagnostic techniques and methodologies
  • Detailed understanding of log files, creation reading and searching
  • Troubleshooting mode

Prerequisites

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Before attending this course, you should have a solid knowledge of servers, storage, networking, and virtualization.

    Who Should Attend

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    System Administrators, Engineers, and Architects responsible for Veeam deployments.

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